The
single
short page that discussed the little bit of info that I had --at the
time-- on my
family tree has taken on a life of its own. But,
then again, genealogy is like that.

Thus
far, the biggest surprise is that I am a member of a very
large family -- the Pepins -- who have been in North America
since the early 1600s. Heady stuff considering
that when I started this genealogical quest in 1970, I was working under
the mistaken assumption that we were the only Peppans in the
whole wide world. I was wrong -- and glad that I
was. With breakthroughs on some of my other
lines, too, I've been having a delightful time getting to
know all my new cousins. It fact, it's gotten a bit tough keeping up
with everyone. If you've written me before, do it again, give me a
gentle nudge. See, I got distracted; go down to the
Arts and Entertainment section near the bottom--or click
>here< to find out why.

If this
is your first visit -- Welcome. I hope you enjoy
your visit here and return from time to time to check on my
progress.

For everyone, if you find a link that doesn't work, please let me know.
Something as simple as "Hey, on that page about So-and-so, you got a bad
link to [fill in the blank]" will work for me.

Now,
for the site directory directory, so you can decide where to go from
here.

"Maybe-cousin" Robert's family has a story
similar to the one mine tells about a shirttail
relationship to THE General Sam, which is why I call
Robert a "maybe-cousin"; he maybe
a cousin. He's not gotten far on his family
research but perhaps there's enough there to make a
connection.

In the Houston information
shared by Robert there was a list of men with the surname
Houston who died in the Vietnam war. Its
presentation here is meant as a memorial to those Houston
men who made the ultimate sacrifice, serving their
country.

This Miller family
has been a tough one to trace, but family stories suggest
more Native American that Robert Hildebrand may or may
not have contributed.

Example: Mable's mother, Mary Louise
Schaffer née Miller, was buried on a
reservation in the Dakota Territory in 1888 -- which did not
happen unless one had at least one blood relative living on the
reservation in question.

The Treaty of
Okmulgee:Full text of the 14 Feb
1833 FortGibson Oklahoma
Treaty that Robert Hildebrand is said to haverefused to sign.

After reading it, I
gotta say that, if the family stories are true, I can understand why he
didn't sign.

George's Pennington
line originated in England, and is a very old family. The Challenge has been finding
the correct John PENNINGTON and Susan OSBORN to whom he
was born in 1862 Missouri (their names are listed in my baby book). I have, thus far, found two couples with these
names.

Ina's paternal line,
the Holversons,
came from Norway. Her maternal line is from England, her maternal great aunt
being
Florence Nightengale.

George and Ina married
17 January 1883 in Bruneau Valley, Owyhee, Idaho, and had 7 children, settling at last on a berry ranch in
Puyallup, Washington, USA.

Tanguay
Says: "The Tanguay" is a 7 volume compilation of baptism and burial
records from the first and early churches of Québec. They are
mostly for the early settlers, but there are at least two sub-lists,
one for the English and one for the local Native peoples. Why
did they do it that way . . . ? Don't know -- yet.

The
Monster Data Base: The family lines of Guillaume, Antoine,
and Robert Pépin and their assorted siblings. lines with collateral family info according to Tanguay.

Someone --no doubt a Canadian French family
historian-- once said, "Go
back six generations and you're related to
everybody."I've been compiling a
database of all the families connected to Robert Pépin
and Marie Crête, whether that connection is by blood or
by marriage.I still have a ways to go,
but so far, the implications are intriguing.

If you think your line
ties in with Robert and Marie, but can't find the connection in what's presented in these web pages, drop
me some e-mail atlisa@fortlangley.ca
If you've already dropped me email, please do it again; the 70s were
WAY to good to me.

Etienne Pepin's
1st cousinEtienne
Pascal PEPIN and his wife Luce HEBERT.
I
thought Etienne-Pascal was Simon's dad for a short while.I've
since learned otherwise, but that's how I came to have
the information I do about him and Luce. Etienne-Pascal
in the son of Louis Pepin and Agathe Roche dit LaLancette, and the grandson of Louis-Etienne Pepin and
Jeanne Maclure.

Etienne's parents Marguerite PEPIN and Michel MAY.Marguerite is the youngest
daughter of Louise-Etienne Pepin and Jeanne Maclure, and
was born, married, and buried in Yamaska, Québec.Michel
May is still a mystery.

A
descendant of this line was my first contact with a
Peppan family unknown to me.Joshua is as
far back as Chuck has gotten.I think that Joshua may be from
Robert and Marie Pepin's line -- but only time will tell,
now.

In
the packet of info I received from the Hudson's Bay
Company, I originally had hoped this was my line, mostly
because there was so much info available for him.
Current research indicates that Pierre is a relative by marriage.

This is the 1977 book by Donald E. Waite
that looks at theearly history of both
Langley Township and Fort Langley.Don
graciously gave permission to put it here for the purpose
of correcting and/or adding information Don gathered in theearly
1970s.

He
recognizes that there
are inaccuracies in the original and is looking for corrections, new
stories, different points of view on old stories, adding to existing
stories . . . more pictures . . .

Ever
wonder how historically dressed interpretive guides know
how to dress? Where do the historic re-enactors get their
clothes? Interested in getting into historic reenactment?
Period Clothing
101 will point you in the right direction.

It is a
graphics heavy page, so while it's loading go walk the dog--

Okay, it doesn't
take that long but if you're on dial-up, you probably
have time to nip in to the kitchen for a quick snack.

Back in the 1940s and 50s, Daddy raced motorcycles with Seattle's Queen City
Motor- cycle
Club. His motorcycle of choice was a big
blue Harley Davidson, and next to hill climbing, his
favorite event was The Mud Run on the family owned track (the other events he participated in were
flat track, cinder track, and ice racing). The
reproduced article here is Daddy's 15 minutes of fame.

And for
all you old motorcycle enthusiasts, I have finally put my father's
racing photo album online. Little Peppy's Racing
pictures
shows the many faces of motorcycle racing in the Pacific Northwest in
the 40s and 50s.

I got an e-mail a while back asking if I knew of a poem
with the above 3 words in it. I didn't -- the first
place I heard them was in a comedy routine, but I asked around, found it, and put it here. Though originally, I didn't
know who wrote it, thanks to you, O Faithful Readers, I now have a
short history of this poem.

A short story written by Lisa M Peppan and
published in the Oct 1999 issue of the e-zine Teaparty.

It tied for 1st place in a writing
contest on a Seattle area BBS writing "list".There were
two rules: 1) it had to start with the line, "It was a dark
and stormy night"; 2) it had to be under 1500 words. I removed that
first line for its publication in Teaparty. The graphics
that appear here are my own invention.

Back in the days of Tandy 1000 and 286s,
when a fast modem moved data at 1200 bps, when some screens were
green on black, when the Internet was One of Those Things not expected
to last, there
was FIDOnet.

In
the time it took to download mail packets other activities
were planned around downloading the daily mail packets --house work,
lawn mowing. Considerate posts were short and sweet,
with short little line at the end that reflected either the
poster or the tone of the message. To make one of these
short little lines --whether they were insightful, inspirational, insulting, or bawdy-- into a single, comprehensible, 57 character sentence, was a challenge taken up by many, resulting in a proliferation of
one-liners.

These
one-liners were called Taglines, and
Taglines, Dear Reader, are the ancestor of the Sig Line.

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